MAN(U) of steel: Manu Bhaker becomes first Indian woman shooter to win a medal at Olympics
Manu Bhaker was in silver medal position. A 0.1-point lead over her South Korean rival Kim Ye-ji, and assured of a medal. That’s when it dawned on all of us.
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The significance of the achievement!
Trolled and abused in Tokyo 2021, contemplating giving up the sport and wanting to retire just a year back, she is today an Olympic medalist with a bronze at the Paris Games on Sunday in the 10m Air Pistol event. It’s India’s first in the 2024 Games, and the first-ever medal for a woman shooter from the country. What’s more? She has two more events to shoot.
That’s sport for you. It can be cruel, but, in the end, it does give back to the truest devotees. Manu is one.
With Jaspal Rana in her corner, she has turned the corner and how. From the gun malfunction three years back to never losing the top-three spots in the final on Sunday, Manu shot like a woman possessed. And in all this it was redemption. From agony and pain, it was triumph of an epic proportion. A deep dive into her training regime and you know she did not have a life for literally a year. Not allowed an extra hour of sleep when she craved for it, not allowed a day of leave from training, it was much like a military boot camp with no breaks whatsoever. Jaspal wasn’t willing to compromise. Not even for a day. It was a mission.
In the real sense it was war minus the shooting. And in doing so,
